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Letter to my wife

I write to tell you that I am doing fine and keeping well, I hope you are the same. I was so delighted when I got your letter the other day and I promise to cherish it. I know that it may be difficult for us to communicate like this, but we can make it through it. We just finished our first battle and we took home the victory. We ordered a counterattack in which reinforcements began to arrive in horseback and train which made the North fall apart. I didn't anticipate the battle to be this long, so I don't know when I will be able to write again. It is also very dangerous and i'm not sure that I will make it back. I deeply wish you were here with me, but it's no good wishing. No matter what happens to me, I want you to know that you have all of my heart. Tell my father I said hello. It is getting late now and I have to go. I love you.

Dear Susan, As you know today is my adoption day, but we are on the run from the dreadful yanks. My wonderful general has baked me and my regiments a cake to congratulate me. I broke down in tears at the thoughtfulness he shows even in such a dire time as this one. Our general has some humor and that is what we love about him, he wrote HAIL DIXIE on the cake. I hope y’all are really safe and that the yanks have not marched on our home. As we exit this dreadful time I really hope to see you again and until that time I will keep praying for your safety. With love Sergeant Fred Bloom Jr.

Everyday I am away from you I become more and more longing for your sugar sweet voice and your soft embrace, and though I think of you every moment of the day I fear I cannot last much longer. This bloody war the north have started will, I fear, will be the death of the south and the safety of the black man. This war has thought me more than a school could ever teach a man. I was thinking of our little boy and I was wondering how his schooling was going and if he would like a rifle and the proper equipment, this would be hard to come by but if he found pleasure in these items I would be more than delighted to oblige.